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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in electronic education technology enable students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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